AC Milan vs Lecce - prediction, team news, lineups

Completing Serie A's last matchday earlier the planetary break, AC Milan volition look to bounce backmost from European nonaccomplishment erstwhile Lecce sojourn San Siro connected Sunday evening.

While the Rossoneri suffered their archetypal competitory decision nether Ruben Amorim successful midweek, the Salentini were inactive celebrating past weekend's triumph implicit Monza.

Match preview

For the 2nd clip successful 4 days, Milan fell 2 goals down connected Wednesday evening, but they could not replicate Saturday's stunning comeback against Lazio successful their opening Europa League fixture.

Having salvaged a constituent from their past league crippled - which ended 2-2 astatine Stadio Olimpico - the Rossoneri were incapable to get backmost into the contention against Benfica, suffering their archetypal nonaccomplishment of the season. 

Defeat was doubly achy for Amorim, who had been hosting his aged club, and aft starting with back-to-back league wins his squad are present without a triumph successful 3 games.

Put into context, they came wrong minutes of beating Juventus earlier rescuing a gully against Lazio, past losing to in-form Benfica, truthful Milan fans whitethorn not beryllium excessively concerned.

Sunday's crippled surely presents a accidental to get consecutive backmost connected track, arsenic the Lombardy giants person not mislaid to Lecce astatine San Siro since the commencement of this century. 

In fact, Milan person won each of their past 4 location games against this week's visitors - and by an aggregate people of 9-0.

Either location oregon away, Lecce's past league occurrence against the Rossoneri dates backmost to April 2006, portion they person failed to find the nett successful 4 of the past 5 meetings.

It is just to accidental that precedent volition not favour the Salentini, but caller signifier astatine slightest suggests they whitethorn person immoderate chance. 

Dating backmost to the process extremity of past season's palmy relegation fight, Eusebio Di Francesco's broadside person won 4 of their past six Serie A matches.

Although they suffered an aboriginal Coppa Italia exit to Serie B promotion hopefuls Palermo, a respectable tally of six points this word matches that of some Napoli and Atalanta.

An unthinkable commencement saw Lecce bushed apt endurance rivals Monza past week, arsenic Lassana Coulibaly's brace and a Tiago Gabriel header enactment them 3-1 up wrong 21 minutes; they yet won 3-2.

The confederate nine thin to conflict a small much distant from the Via del Mare, but they volition person thing overmuch to suffer erstwhile they sojourn Milan. 

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Team News

Amorim made a fewer changes successful midweek, with Luka Modric notably being rested, but the seasoned schemer could instrumentality to Milan's starting XI connected Sunday, on with Adrien Rabiot and Mario Gila.

Notwithstanding immoderate issues arising from the crippled against Benfica, the hosts should person a cleanable measure of health, giving their manager plentifulness of options to take from.

Two places successful enactment of lone striker Goncalo Ramos are being keenly contested, and Christian Pulisic is backmost successful the premix aft playing the full 2nd fractional connected Wednesday.

Lecce are the American's favourite hostile successful Serie A, with 5 goals against them successful arsenic galore matches; however, helium has not started a league crippled since April.

Meanwhile, the visitors indispensable question northbound without injured striker Willem Geubbels, portion midfielders Medon Berisha and Omri Gandelman stay doubts.

In the second pair's apt absence, Coulibaly (two goals and 1 assistance this season) and Ivan Ilic (two assists) should antheral Lecce's motor room.

AC Milan imaginable starting lineup:

Maignan; Gila, De Winter, Pavlovic; Chukwueze, Modric, Musah, Moreira; Rabiot, Cisse; Ramos

Lecce imaginable starting lineup:

Falcone; Veiga, Siebert, Gabriel, Gallo; Coulibaly, Ilic, Maleh; Pierotti, Stulic, Monteiro

We say: AC Milan 2-0 Lecce

Milan whitethorn person to wait, but they tin proceed their implicit dominance of Lecce with a regular triumph astatine San Siro.

All 7 of the Rossoneri's goals this word person travel wrong the last half-hour; curiously, the slow-starting Salentini have conceded 5 of 7 goals wrong 30 minutes of kickoff. 

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